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A history of travel in America : showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent (1915)

Dunbar, Seymour. 1867-1947 · Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co. · leaf 233

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A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA The 29th Congress — to the Senate of which the fore¬ going report was submitted — took no definite action. It was not convinced that Whitney’s plan was the wisest one which could be formulated. Agitation in its behalf con¬ tinued during the next two years,… … 393. — Laying the track. A construction train on the Central Pacific division of the work, which was built from the Pacific coast eastward. The train carried ties and rails, and slowly advanced above them as they were put in place. states and cities continued to record their endorsement of the…

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